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Linux-Announce Digest #481
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Linux-Announce Digest #481, Volume #4 Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Free/Libre and Open Source Software links from Goa, India... ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Manifesto highlights role of Open Source in development cooperation ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
[Flosstoday] INDIA-KOLKATA/CALCUTTA minutes of the meeting of ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:39:11 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Free/Libre and Open Source Software links from Goa, India...
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ILUG-Goa's GNU/Linux links: From Goa, India
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(Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute,
study, change and improve the software. To run the program for any purpose.
To study how it works, and adapt it to your needs. To redistribute copies so
you can help your neighbour. To improve the program, and release your
improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.)
ILUG-Goa
http://www.ilug-goa.org
http://www.ilug-margao.org
Mailing-list
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa
To subscribe, send a blank email to
ilug-goa-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Teach-Yourself-Linux
To join: teach-yourself-linux-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
List of software available in Goa
http://sofall.vze.com (Ajay Cuncoliencar's site)
For CDs in Goa: Clinton Vaz <klintvaz at gmx.net> Ph 2736828 or 9822123535
Possible speakers from ILUG-Goa:
Tech: Gurunandan Bhat (2461520, 2453199), Arvind Yadav (2415460/61), Arvind
Clement (2700891 or 9422018922), Dr Anil Seth (2741872), Prof George Easaw
of GEC (2319185), etc. For an entire list of possible speakers and other
GNU/Linux contacts, ask FN (fred at bytesforall.org).
For links across India
http://www.linux-india.org
Linux India network
Check out the three mailing lists on this site (LIG-Linux India General for
news, LIH-Linux India Help for tech help discussions, and LIP-Linux India
Programming)
Free Software Foundation-India
http://gnu.org.in
http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends
The mailing list, fsf-friends, is as above.
Project Resource Centre
Get ideas on what could be a good GNU/Linux project
http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc
Coverage of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in the tech press:
Linux For You, monthly, Rs 50 with CD
DeveloperIQ, monthly
PCQuest, Digit/Chip, etc also offer occasional coverage.
Mostly available in Panjim. Enquire Varsha Bookstall: 2425832
Free Software and Open Source
Free Software http://fsf.org/
Open Source http://www.opensource.org/
Some useful sites explaining various terms:
http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/frames.html
The New Hacker's Dictionary
http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/glossary/index.html
Salon's Free Software Project, Glossary
http://www.walthowe.com/glossary/
Walt's Internet Glossary
http://www.tucows.com/help/glos.html
Tucows Glossary
http://www.fdt.net/support/q-z.html
Florida Digital Turnpike Glossary of Terms Q-Z
http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/acro/index.htm
The UNIX Acronym List
Some FLOSS information sites:
GNU
http://gnu.org
Linux
http://www.linux.org/
Linux Journal
http://www.linuxjournal.com
Newsforge
http://newsforge.com
Open Source Initiative
http://www.opensource.org
Richard Stallman
http://stallman.org
Slashdot
http://slashdot.org
Most successful FLOSS projects and technologies
Debian GNU/Linux
http://www.debian.org
SuSe Linux
http://www.suse.com
Red Hat Linux
http://www.redhat.com
Apache (world's most popular web server)
http://www.apache.org
Mozilla (wonderful web browser)
http://www.mozilla.org
Openoffice.org (wordprocessing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, data
charting, formula editing, file-conversion)
http://www.openoffice.org
Koha (integrated library system)
http://www.koha.org/
Sendmail (most widely used mail server)
http://www.sendmail.org
Postfix (newer mail server)
http://www.postfix.org
BIND (program for turning host names into IP addresses)
http://www.isc.org/
PHP (general purpose scripting language, specially suited for Web
development, and can be embedded into HTML)
http:/www.php.org/
Perl (high-level programming language, favourite tool of sys admins)
http://www.perl.org/
MySQL (most popular open source database in the world)
http://www.mysql.com
Samba (file and printer sharing)
http://www.samba.org/
Zope (application server, specializing in content management, portals and
custom applications. Zope enables team to collaborate in the creation and
management of dynamic web-based business applications like intranets and
portals)
http://www.zope.org/
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# ILUG-Goa meets in Panjim (Goa) on the fourth Saturday of each month, #
# from 4 to 6.30 pm, at the Computer Society of India, Goa chapter. #
# Location: Third Floor, Naguesh Apts, Opposite Hotel Navtara, Market #
# Area, Panjim 403001. In Margao, we meet on the second Saturday of each #
# month at Adarsh Vidyalaya School. There are also meetings held at #
# the Goa Engineering College, depending on timings suitable to #
# students at Farmagudi. We would support the setting up of similar #
# user-groups in other areas of Goa. Membership open to all. #
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TWO LITTLE boys exchanged toys, both went away with one toy each. Two wise
men exchanged ideas, both went away with two ideas each. -African proverb.
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Manifesto highlights role of Open Source in development cooperation
Date: 20 Jul 2003 05:55:14 GMT
========== Forwarded message ==========
[from What's new on DigitalOpportunity.org 18-Jul-03]
Manifesto highlights role of Open Source in development cooperation
http://sarai.waag.org/display.php?id=28
Open Source practitioners from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America
recently got together to produce a manifesto on the role of Open
Source Software (OSS) in the development cooperation context. Asking
all stakeholders to pay more attention to OSS, they argue that it has
a special importance when viewed, used and produced in the context of
development cooperation and should be employed wherever possible.
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s-asia-it@lists.apnic.net
http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/s-asia-it
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: [Flosstoday] INDIA-KOLKATA/CALCUTTA minutes of the meeting of
Date: 20 Jul 2003 17:40:15 GMT
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The following is the minutes of the meeting of the iLUG-Kolkata chapter,
also available soon from the site at www.ilug-cal.org
Minutes of the meeting held on 18th July 2003 at The Amitava Dey
Memorial Hall (Jadavpur University).
Members present:
1. Rupak Sinha
2. Arijit Majumdar
3. Sankar Prasad Ghosh
4. Anindya Chakraborty
5. Anirban Biswas
6. Arindam Chatterjee
7. Arindam Basu
8. Dr. Shubhra Majumdar
9. Rahul Bhattacharya
10. Sona Ray
11. Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
12. Rohit V. Kumar
13. Soumyadip Modak [Meeting Coordinator for July'03]
14. Sudeep Mukherjee
15. Subhankar Chatterjee
16. Dipam Saraf
17. Somnath Ghosh
18. Saugata Ghosh [the official scrollkeeper in absence of Sayamindu
Dasgupta]
19. Subhobroto Sinha
20. Sarup Sengupta
21. Indranil Das Gupta [Coordinator - iLUG-Kolkata]
22. Sutanu Ghosh
The turnout was surprisingly large considering the late announcement of
the meeting venue. 5:30 pm was the scheduled time but since there were
some official formalities required we were delayed by an hour. Moreover
finding the hall was difficult for some people. However, this marks a
turnaround in the iLUG-Kolkata history, hitherto condemned to tramping
all over Kolkata for a suitable venue, Jadavpur University does provide
that necessary bit of support for a LUG to prosper.
The arrangement was excellent. An LCD projector would have completed our
wish list. Otherwise there was everything required for a successful
meeting. Enough seats, AC room, Good atmosphere, white board, etc.
First each member gave a short self-introduction one by one. This is
done so as to introduce each member to the new ones (as well as the ones
who are attending for the first time).
After that Indranil presented a demonstration-based talk on building rpm
packages. Demonstrated how to build a ".src.rpm" file and a ".rpm"
(binary) file once you have a source tree that compiles and ready for
deployment. Being based currently on a Mandrake setup, he admitted that
his talk was based more towards RedHat and Mandrake users, but others
should follow that time-honored ritual of RTFM.
He promised to put some of the slides online. On his box we also had a
first look of the Bangla Gnome and the Bangla KDE
desktops in Mandrake. For more on this drop by www.bengalinux.org
The meeting ended at about 8:30 pm.
-sm
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The Ankur Bangla Project
www.bengalinux.org
Bringing Bangla to the GNU/Linux desktop
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